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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1991 School & Community 10 Tera Griffiths Joins 'Youth Action' training with FHA Tera Griffiths, FHA Utah mony, dealt with teenagers State Officer, and her advisor, difficulties with conflict and the value of peaceful conflict resolution and building unity. It FHA sented the Long Valley Chapter at a leadership train- urged them to take action toing conference held in Salt Lake wards improvement. At the end of the conference City. Youth Action was the theme Griffiths had one wish: that the chosen to highlight the activi- students at Valley High and high ties of this year's regional Clus- schools everywhere had the opter Meetings. Over one thou- portunity to attend a meeting sand members and advisors form such as this FHA Cluster Meetten states dealt with such issues ing. It is so exciting to be a part as the environment, of an organization like FHA bevolunteerism, professionalism, cause of the values it stresses. and peer Our advisors and leaders talk homeless, openly about the problems that pressure. The Youth Action theme was face youth today and by being powerfully reinforced by the gen- involved we develop the abilieral session multimedia presen- ties to work out our problems, tation. The program, called Har- - said Griffiths. Lee Stockard, recently repre- self-estee- ' H 36 Students Support Blood Drive mmmmt . . 1 . i i f A The Kanab High School Blood Drive turned out very well. All together there were 36 people and 28 units donated. It was gratifying to see so many people come to support the drive. Even though many donors were rejected because of many reasons, thanks for trying! Now in case anyone in the high school needs blood, the high school can give them 28 units. Thanks, Kanab High School. Pictured here Danielle Lucket lies on the donors couch while friends Brittany Barton, Travis Riding and Jennifer Thebeau offer their support. I i f 1 ' I . f 4 Bullfrog 'Parade of Lights' Nov. 30 Rainbow Trout Stocked In , Panguitch Lake I y i Despite some unforeseen prob- lems in restocking Panguitch Lake after the September treatment project, fisheries personnel were finally able to stock 144,000 8 inch rainbow trout in early November. Plans originally called for trout to be stocked in October, but low water levels, unseasonably good weather, and massive growths of aquatic weeds resulted in unusually high PH levels in the lakes water chemistry. As a result, attempts to stock the lake had to be postponed because trout cannot adjust from hatchery conditions to such high PH levels. Fortunately, an early winter storm put a sudden end to conditions. the problem-causin- g The delay may have been beneficial, however, as food supplies for small trout also improved. Plankton blooms were just startbut ing to occur in by November food supplies for trout looked much better. Panguitch Lake is scheduled to to fishing Memorial Weekend, 1992. Trout stocked this fall are expected to be 0 inches long by that time and should grow rapidly throughout s 6-- mid-Octobe- r, re-op- en 9-1- : State Officer, Tera Griffiths, and fellow officer, call a meeting to order at cluster meeting at Salt Lake City recently. FHA Ian Baron is Semi-FinaliAs National Merit Scholar st The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has recently released the names of those students selected to be Semifinalists who have the opportunity to continue in the competition for more than 6,100 Merit Scholarships. Among those listed was Ian Mark Baron, a senior at Fredonia High School and son of Mark and Fay Lynn Baron of Fredonia Ian in interested in computers, is a member of the National Honor Society, and has taken awards in DECA and Academic Decathlon Competitions r Arizona. Winners of Merit Scholarships in the 37th annual Merit Program will be announced in the spring of 1992. Students entered the 1992 Merit competition by taking the 1990 PSATNMSQT, an exam the summer, reaching the 2 which served as an initial screen of more than one million stupound range next fall. Normal stocking rates will be dents. 15,000 Semifinalists were next year, includ- chosen on a state allocation bareintroduction of other trout sis. Ian was one of five students ing such as brook trout and in the Northern ArizonaSouth-especies brown trout, as well as more Utah area who qualified as a m rainbow trout. Semifinalist. Ian Baron |